Quotes About Mastery

Today, I will identify what I want and need; then, I'll be willing to let go of it. I will devote my energy to living my life today, so I may master my lessons as quickly as possible. I will trust that what I want and need is coming to me. I will let go of my need to control the details.

Genius will only take you to 'good.' Practice will take you to 'Master.

The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burn With love. How pitiful is our enforced return To those small things we are the masters of.

The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create.

La mayor felicidad se deriva del completo dominio de las propias facultades

there is no profit in feeling unless one learns to dominate it and impersonalise it. -

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialized skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

Success breeds confidence.

The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting.

I'm into something that definitely does require your attention, and with that, you're not going to run out of things to do. You're never going to be the master of music.

I think experience helps but it's not required to be successful.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.

As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

I can gallop, I can trot, I can move sideways and turn around. I can do everything I need to do on a horse.

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films.

In golf, no one learns to hit a draw, a fade, or a cut shot until they've been taught how to hit the ball straight. Similarly, novice poker players need to learn how to 'hit it straight' before taking on more difficult concepts.

Every department from the director to the art takes their time to set up, similarly as an actor it is your responsibility to take your time. Never be in a rush.

What's seemingly a simple thing can actually be the hardest to achieve.

My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.